I admit I don't know for sure if Kevin has plans for anti-bullying techniques or safety strategies, but it seems to me that he would; such a class would be incomplete without them. But at the end of the day, he is a big burly man, and many women feel more comfortable getting non-physical training in street strategies from a woman.

I think you're taking the absolute right approach, especially if Anna hasn't yet internalized the idea that protecting herself is a right and desirable thing to do. I don't know how close you are to Burlington these days, but when you're ready, Pence has a thriving youth program, and Kevin has decades of experience working with students of all sorts of abilities (IIRC, Anna has a small coordination disability?). He runs the school like a club, almost a family, rather than a for-profit business. At least one of the students in the adult class has been with him since he was seven or eight years old.